The new add media system doesn't allow making my image a link

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  dihnekis · Member · Dec 6, 2015 at 6:32 am

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  The old system of adding images to a post allowed me to have my site visitors click on an image and it would load the full image by loading the image URL. That option is gone now. Where did it go and why was it removed?

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  mountaincoward · Member · Dec 6, 2015 at 7:58 am

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  nullI’ve been reporting on this for quite a while but getting no reply from the support teams – just some other folks having trouble with the same thing.

  Basically, they’ve removed the ‘a href’ statement from the HTML coding the ‘add media’ button automatically provides. I’ve been having to code my own manually as follows but it’s a royal pain when you have a post with many photos (my last one, still in draft, had 49 photos!).

  (Warning – when I try to show you what code you need in this reply, when I submit it, it’s quite likely to try to use my example as real code and screw up what I’m writing)

  Load your photo as normal and, making sure you’re displaying html instead of visual, add the following immediately before the ‘img src bit’

  ` you can get the URL needed from the img src statement below. When you copy the URL, you’ll need to truncate it at the end of your photo name and format, e.g. at the end of the ‘.jpg’ or whatever format it is in (for some reason, there’s a width statement on the end of mine (w=650) which you wouldn’t want).

  At the end of the full image coding, you’ll also need to add the following code or the post will truncate at that point:
  </a>`

  Hope my reply comes out and hope you can make sense of it. If not, you might be best contacting me via e-mail me as it will be easier for me to help there. There’s a ‘contact page’ on my blog which will e-mail me.

  http://www.mountaincowardadventures.wordpress.com

  Hope that helps…
  Carol.

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  mountaincoward · Member · Dec 6, 2015 at 7:59 am

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  knew that wouldn’t work – it removed some of the coding from my reply. Try contacting me via my contact page Andrew.

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  mountaincoward · Member · Dec 6, 2015 at 10:56 am

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  Trying again with the code needed (just once more!):

  in front of the image coding you have when you insert your image:

  <a href="URL">

  and at the end of the code for the image:
  </a>